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Nissa Tolton

Nissa Tolton

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    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
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  • About
  • Blog
    • Dreaming
    • LGBTQ
    • Philosophy
    • Political
  • Books
    • Salt Island DiariesShunned by Victorian society at every turn, these women build a society of their own
    • Good-Bye HarajukuLove, speed, capitalism, and post-truth
    • Principle of FlocksHistorical romance, time-travel, and the metaverse
    • Titcomb’s LettersVery particular advice to young people, from 1858 onward.
  • Short Fiction
    • Audiobooks
    • Scripts
    • Humor
    • Poetry
  • Notes on Dreaming
  • Notes on Heavens
English-speaking advice for foreigners and Americans
  • Blog

English-speaking advice for foreigners and Americans

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 15 June 202119 December 2025

Foreigners often find themselves persisting in certain grammatical errors, and the reason is the most dreadful one: native speakers are setting the example.

Model T
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Model T

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 15 June 202130 June 2023

Are we doing better than a factory worker of 1914? Let’s compare wages in the currency of Model Ts.

a man and a woman stand in front of a red convertable 1950s America
  • Books
  • Principle of Flocks

Principle of Flocks

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 13 June 202119 February 2026

Principle of Flocks is a NA novel about love, alternate time-lines, and the most precious commodity in the metaverse: lucidity.

Post-Truth Comments
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Post-Truth Comments

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 June 202123 September 2021

Comments and doubts about post-truth

Progressive Allies
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  • Political

Progressive Allies

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 June 202123 September 2021

Right vs Left are two entirely different games in the same casino

A Distant and Awesome Beacon
  • Salt Island Diaries

A Distant and Awesome Beacon

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 12 June 20211 June 2026

“If this world had angels, they would necessarily be the fleshy kind, and she would be of it.”

Good-Bye Harajuku
  • Books

Good-Bye Harajuku

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 June 202128 May 2025

Good-Bye Harajuku is a series about love, speed, capitalism, and post-truth.⁠⁠ Funny, quirky, and irreverent, it’s deeply philosophical at its core.

two 19th century women wearch for stones on a New England beach
  • Philosophy
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  • Salt Island Diaries

Pebble Beach 5 March 1848

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 10 June 20211 June 2026

Entry 168: Ellen collects heating stones with Clara

And now for something completely different
  • Blog

And now for something completely different

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 5 June 2021

We interrupt this blog for a picture of an attractive woman.

Total Victory
  • Humor

Total Victory

  • Nissa Tolton
  • 4 June 2021

The reason Capitalism is perfect is that it does not defeat its enemies. It commoditizes them.

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